1898.] FROM muTisn KAST AFRICA. 



edged with blue-black scales ; abdomen clothed with loirj; 'jji 

 white hair, the anal extremity with brown-tipped -patulat 

 scales; a large dorsal tuft tipped with blue-black near ill 

 remaining segments with transverse blue-black bars. I 'nder 

 white; markings of upper surface indicated in smoky !>n 

 secondaries with indications of similar markings on east a MM 

 vaguely) beyond the middle: body stained in the midill.- \\i;h 

 chestnut brownish; front of head brown ; two anterior pairs of T-gs 

 clothed with brown and blue-black tipped bristle-; hind pair le> 

 varied in colouring. Expanse of wings iJoio)}! milliin. 



cT cT , Maungu Lnkubwa, 2nd April; Mbuyuni Hill, '\\^\. .lu'v 

 and J3rd August, 1897. 



The example first obtained is somewhat shattered and worn : it 

 represents the greatest expanse of wing and is the palest sperim -\\. 

 of the three. 



At first I imagined that this species might be t 

 Pettiy ramma Sj->icu1dtti ; but a careful study of 

 satisfied me that his insect is the female of Wa! 

 tran(sMi'Sfi., from Sierra Leone. Salayena differs rhietly from Ai'l^la 

 in the upright hair on the anal segment instead of spatulate hair- 

 scales. 



Z Y G -E x 1 1> JE. 



215. AllXIOCERA CHRYSOSTICTA, sp. 11. (Plate XXX 1. 1 1. lig. :!.) 



Allied to A. auriijidtata (A. melaiwjw/a Wallgr.). Wings Mark, 

 shot \vith blue; primaries with purplish blue almost to outer 

 margin, where it shades into bright Prussian blue ; costa densely 

 irrorated with metallic emerald-green : live golden-ochreous spots 

 as follows one small, across the cell near its extremity, a larg'-r 

 oval one beyond the cell, one smaller (rounded) between veins '2 

 and )3, one large at centre of interno-median interspace, and one 

 equally large, subtriaugular, very metallic, crossed by vein 1 

 towards the base : secondaries shot with Antwerp blue, purplish 

 on the fringe. Body black ; vertex of head and palpi carmine-red : 

 antenna) shining black; thorax slightly sprinkled with metallic 

 green scales; patagia brilliantly brassy green: metat borax and 

 base of abdomen greenish steel-blue ; two terminal segments of 

 abdomen ultramarine-blue, with black anal tuft. Wine;- below 

 more brightly shot with blue than above, but the submedian gold, 

 ochreous spots partially obliterated; the three othe 

 above. Body below black, the venter brilliantly glossed w 

 blue: anterior legs black externallv. but clothed intern; 

 short bright ochreous hair; femora of second pair purpli; 

 ochreous in front ; the tibia 1 orange-vermilion externally. cl< 

 internally with long carmine hair ; tarsi black; posterior le 

 purplish black; tibia 1 vermilion-red, tipped with blue-black and 

 with a long pencil of creamy-white hair extending to the basal 

 third of the black tarsi. Expanse of wings Jii millim. 



Samburu, 4th November, 1890. 



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